I am excited to be in on the ground floor of a new monetization opportunity for bloggers and web site owners (thanks to Gayla), and I want to give you the opportunity to get in on it early as well! A leading distributor for Ask.com has a new program called Related Search Ads. It is highly customizable and puts you in complete control over all aspects of the ad display. You can use this program on sites where you have Adsense ads, and it can work well on those sites where Adsense just doesn’t provide much income. Right now they’re focusing on approving only high-traffic sites (50,000+ visitors per month), but hopefully that will change soon. You can see it in action at the bottom of this post as well as in the sidebar of one of my niche blogs, Printables4Scrapbooking. It’s working great for me so far!
How does it work? you enter a keyword/phrase in the set up form, choose whether you want a vertical or horizontal display and what size you want, how many links you want to display, and what elements you want to have in the links area. When users click on one of the related search terms it opens a new window or tab in Ask.com and you earn a commission clicks on sponsored links!
Will my Adsense clicks decline? I have not seen a decline since I’ve been using it, and other users have reported the same.
How can I sign up? New publishers are being taken by referral only, and each site is reviewed individually and manually approved. Click here to sign up via my referral form! Put my name (RANDA CLAY) in the referral form. Once you sign up, you can also apply to earn from those who sign up under you! This is a great program- I encourage you to try it out and let me know what you think.
Randa this is awesome!
Thank you so much…I just signed up under you.
I pray they accept me.
Paula
Looks like a promising opportunity. I’m not sure if my traffic is high enough at the moment, but I applied under you anyway.
I’ll post back when I hear something.
Thanks for all the great info you provide!
–Steve
Thanks Steve!
I have a ways to go before I get that traffic. Hope it works out well for you.
Anyone have experience ADVERTISING w/’em?
I’d be more interest in that…any competiton to break the
stranglehold that some services have (eg, we dont’ like
your ad, we don’t like your site, etc..but give us your money!)..
would be welcomed.
I don’t have any experience advertising with them to report on, unfortunately…
Well, the good news is I was accepted! I’ve already added a few link blocks on my site and initial thoughts are promising. They’re easy to configure, they look good and they seem to stand out better than everyone’s favorite AdSense Ads…
Thanks for writing the article and putting me on to this opportunity,
–Steve
Thanks Steve, for coming back to share of your experience with them so far!
Sounds great, and looks pretty unobtrusive too. I really need an alternative to Adsense–the ad’s on my site appear to be becoming less and less relevant.
However, not quite up to that traffic level yet.
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one month on and i’ve made a small amount of $$$
i like the program and think it has great potential.
i’m still waiting, however, for details on the affiliate scheme which they’ve been promising me for 3, nearly 4 weeks now. i’ve emailed several times, but haven’t heard anything for some time.
how is it working out for you Randa?
–steve
It’s working out pretty well. It’s no Google Adsense, but my Google earnings are up plus I’m earning extra from these ads, so it’s all good. Sorry they haven’t gotten back to you on the affiliate thing. I think the program has taken off out from under them a little and they are just trying to stay above water. Thanks for the report back!
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i would love to be able to use this in my game website but people complain when ads are posted on the game pages lol,i will keep an eye on it though with interest